Issue 423 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
June 2009
June 2009
It’s a year of anniversaries in China – 60 years of communist control; 30 years since capitalists joined the party; and 20 years ago next month since tanks rolled over Chinese reform movements in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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